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Bill to Defund Obama Executive Action on Immigration Defeated - US Senator

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President Barack Obama pauses during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Washington. Obama is telling Americans who voted for change: I hear you. - Sputnik International
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US Republican Senator Susan Collins introduced the bill to defund the president’s recent executive action on immigration, which would allow some illegal immigrants to avoid deportation.

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Bill to Defund Obama’s Immigration Action Fails in US Senate
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A US Senate bill to defund US President Barack Obama’s November 2014 immigration executive action was voted down on Friday, but will likely be reintroduced on the Senate floor next week, US Senator Shelley Moore Capito told Sputnik on Friday.

“[The bill to defund the executive action] was defeated, but the Majority Leader [Mitch McConnell] changed his vote, so I think he’s reserving the right to bring that back up,” Capito, who presided over the US Senate vote on Friday, said.

Asked if the bill could be brought up for another vote when the Senate reconvenes at the start of the next week, Capito stated, “I imagine it will.”

US Republican Senator Susan Collins introduced the bill to defund the president’s recent executive action on immigration, which would allow some illegal immigrants to avoid deportation. The measure was originally an amendment to the 2015 funding bill for the UD Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency responsible for implementing US immigration law.

US Senate Majority Leader McConnell brokered a deal among Senate Republicans to remove the defunding language from the DHS bill, and received assurances from Senate Democrats that the bill to defund the executive orders could come up for a vote.

The Collins bill would bar the administration “from using funding to implement the immigration orders issued by the president in November last year,” Collins said on the floor of the Senate on Friday.

McConnell stated that the bill addressed egregious executive overreach by the president.

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